House Republicans Kill the Bailout Bill- Thank You
Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
The Wall street bailout bill was killed this morning in the house by a vote of 228-205. Republicans voted against the bill 133-65 while Democrats voted in favor by 140-95. Nancy Pelosi stepped in front of the microphone and said that the Democrats did more than their part and that Republicans deserved all of the blame credit.
Looking at the fact that 95 Democrats voted against this bill also, I am not sure how she can make that claim, but hell if she wants to give the Republicans credit for this, let me be the first to say to the house Republicans-thank you. Who am I to argue?
Some congressmen, including Democrats actually claim that Nancy Pelosi cost themselves votes with her partisan speech before the vote but I am not going to allow her to gain any of the credit in this. The American people are angry about this bill and at least we know there are some left who listen to us. Many politicians were afraid to vote in favor of this bill so close to the election once they gauged the outrage of the voter. If it wasn’t so close to the election it might have been different. But this is the same group of people who stopped the illegal alien amnesty bill so I think we can see where the last of the conservatives reside.
It’s just sad that most voters don’t pay attention to this and are probably going to vote these people out of office.
House Republicans refused to give in to the fear mongering, doom and gloom predictions. They refused to give in to the hysteria and the we have to something right away or everybody is going to die mentality that has been inundated on the American people over the last two weeks.
House Republicans took a step back and realized that to just do something for the sake of doing something might be worse than doing nothing.
So on behalf of Main Street America let me once again say to the house Republicans, thank you for realizing that it wasn’t my responsibility to bail out Wall Street.
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Unfortunately, if Wall Street tanks tomorrow, then the Republicans will get blamed for not allowing it to be saved. It’s a hopeless fight it seems. I say let the effin’ dems have the government and run this country into the ground, then people will begging the Republicans to save them!!! What is wrong with this country. They did the right thing today and Obama’s polls gain five points! People are frigin crazy…or just plain dumb as a box of rocks. Either way, we’re hosed. I dread the next month, I really, really do. McCain needs his A game in such a big way, it’s not even funny. And poor Sarah. If Thursday tanks, I don’t think I’ll be able to bear it.
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I am afraid that everything that you wrote is right. Although I can’t stand the thought of letting the Dems have control for four years. The results may be devastating and irreversable.
I think McCain is going to continue to fade all the way until the election. His decision to “suspend his campaign” to focus on the bailout could be his final undoing.
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I guess when everything is going to go into the crapper, it makes sense to start the blame game early. As I said before, there is plenty of blame on both sides. The house republicans are just covering their butts because it is an election year. This bill would have been given a bipartisan rubber stamp by them otherwise.
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I think that not only the fact that this is an election year, but also how close it is to the election had allot to do with it. This bill is eventually going to get done and we are all going to pay in the end.
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